Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates, I believe - I could be wrong, I don't know a ton about the actual origins of the name. Liriel is from a novel, but I want to say it has roots in Hebrew - possibly relating to Liron, though I could be wrong about that, too. Lilivere is a smush. Kulali is a place name, I believe.

See, I have this giant journal I used to write down names in when I first became interested in names and I never wrote down meanings and I have collected meanings and origins over the years, but I haven't found one for all the names I have in there. I can't even be sure that all of the ones I have in there are even legit. When I get bored, I tend to open it and research the missing ones.

Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates, I believe - I could be wrong, I don't know a ton about the actual origins of the name. Liriel is from a novel, but I want to say it has roots in Hebrew - possibly relating to Liron, though I could be wrong about that, too. Lilivere is a smush. Kulali is a place name, I believe.

See, I have this giant journal I used to write down names in when I first became interested in names and I never wrote down meanings and I have collected meanings and origins over the years, but I haven't found one for all the names I have in there. I can't even be sure that all of the ones I have in there are even legit. When I get bored, I tend to open it and research the missing ones.

According to wiki, the etymology of Xanthippe means "yellow horse", but I think we can all agree that wiki is questionable at best, lol.

I owe most of these names to saracita00. I admired a list of unusual boys' names she posted, and she kindly sent me some more. Many of them are cultural variations of familiar names, but they're changed enough to look and feel exotic--for example, Ruggiero and Rogelio are forms of Roger. Once I realized that, I started looking at the variations listed in my baby name books and realized it could be quite a goldmine, especially if you're looking for weird/unusual/rare character names!

Aquilo/Aquilas/Aquileo
Rysio (a form of Rhys?)
Dalziel
Rheinallt
Renzo (short form of Lorenzo?)
Enando (short form of Ferdinando, etc.?)
Ruggiero
Rogelio
Ardziv (I don't really have a guess about this one...)
Donardo (a form of Donald, perhaps?)
Pierrel
Piero
Petros
Petru (forms of Peter)
Adolar (don't know...)
Daxiat
Ciptriano
Isandro
Porfirio (a saint's name, I think...cool, isn't it?)
Txanton
Tirian (a Narnian prince, from C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles"--from whence he derived it, I do not know...)
Quinndon
Paladin (word name--one of my favorites from this list!)
Balendin (wait--I think saracita wrote me that a few of these came from you! I'll see if I can remember which those were!)
Nairn
Zahn
Istivan (a form of Steven?)
Eldrian
Wystan
Aarohan

You might like these, too. I collected them myself and found them fascinating. We live near several Russian communities, and these names come from that culture. I love the ones, like Kornily, whose origins (in this case Cornelius) are evident but not apparent till you take a second look.